Read this important Letter to the Editor about Sheriff Dart’s unfounded fearmongering about public safety, electronic monitoring, & the fight to #EndMoneyBail in Cook County by scholar, activist, and friend of CCBF, James Kilgore.

“Overall since September thousands of people have won their constitutional right of release from jail impending adjudication — a reversal of the (unconstitutional) mass incarceration model. Locking people up does not guarantee public safety. In fact, mass incarceration has actually ignored public safety — particularly the safety of vulnerable, over-policed communities and for whom racialized mass imprisonment has delivered fear, disruption, punishment and deprivation of liberty.”